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Word: protests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like effect to President Kalinin of the Soviet; the Polish foreign minister forwarded a similar communication to the Soviet Foreign Office. The Polish government seemed to have done all that was reasonably possible. But the matter was not allowed to drop by the Soviet officials, and a sharp protest was returned to the Polish officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASSASSINATION | 6/9/1927 | See Source »

...appointment of a commission to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case, composed of President Lowell, President S. W. Stratton of M. I. T. and former Judge Robert Grant has already brought forth a storm of protest from such prominent men as T. J. Boynton, former attorney general of the Commonwealth and F. A. Goodwin, Registrar of Motor Vehicles. The former declared in an address to the alumni association of the Suffolk Law School that "there is absolutely no need for any fact finding commission in this case" and the latter declared that such action would be "a direct attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOYNTON, GOODWIN CENSURE GOVERNOR | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

...Forum is the last magazine in the world to protest at honest difference with its authors' opinions, but it really must insist that the facts stated shall have some relation to the facts as they exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Ritchie. It was 99 years ago that John Caldwell Calhoun, then Vice President of the U. S., wrote "The South Carolina Exposition," a political thesis which maintained that the Federal Government was usurping rights inherent to the individual states. Calhoun's protest was inspired by the high tariff law of 1828. Later the tariff problem was swallowed up in the secession issue and the state rights doctrine temporarily crumbled at Gettysburg and Appomattox Court House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...Whiskey Protest. " Attention has previously been called to numerous arbitrary restrictions imposed on the medical profession by unnecessary restrictive enforcement regulations regarding medicinal agents. I need only mention the statement on the back of a recent issue of the Volstead prescription book: i. e., 'You are personally responsible for this book. It will not be replaced if lost and failure to properly safeguard it will result in revocation of your permit.' Such a statement may be characterized only as insulting to an honored profession."?Wendell C. Phillips, retiring President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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